Amazon.com Inc is poised to bring its automated checkout technology to full-size supermarkets, a significant milestone in the race to revolutionise how people buy their groceries. Amazon says it has created thousands of grocery jobs since the launch of the first Fresh store last year. But apart from a test at a Fresh store in suburban Chicago, the new chain doesn’t feature Go-style automated checkout – prompting surprise from industry watchers anticipating a less traditional approach. Equipping a 2,000-square-foot convenience store with cameras can be done with a few dozen devices. The sales floor – the area that would need to be policed by camera arrays – is about 20,000 square feet.

Source: The Star April 23, 2021 00:00 UTC